#Libraries

menofworth

menofworth

Thread.About twenty years ago I discovered the newspaper archives in Keighley Library @bradfordlibs247. The Great War period was full of images of soldiers and what had happened to them. I

Faine Greenwood

faineg

ok boomer - you can lecture the youths on morality all you want but your generation was totally cool with *straight up ads for cocaine accessories* There’s MORE wow how

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changingshades

Reading list 2020Gonna post on this thread when I finish a book. I count audiobooks, because who has time to read, really? Ever since I found out about the @LibbyApp

Binti Stories

BintiStories

MULENGA KAPWEPWEZambia’s Patron of the Arts.Mulenga Kapwepwe is almost like a walking library; a granary of African cultural idioms, expressions and a repository of Zambia’s cultural DNA. She’s been described

Richard Ovenden

richove

Of all the accounts of destruction & preservation in #Burningthebooks the most moving to me is the account of the organisation known as @yivoinstitute. Formed in Vilnius (Vilna) in the

BL printed heritage

BLprintheritage

Whilst most Sir Hans Sloane's natural history specimens took flight to @NHM_London in the 1880s some remained @britishmuseum and came instead to @britishlibrary Quite the trail for these little beasts

Sophie Petzal

Sonic_Screwup

The snobbery and wrongness of this and takes like this kills me. If you’re not aware of the connections between football, supporters trust and socialist activism, that’s your problem and

Max Kwiek

mdkwaw

I have been co-organising a Theory Workshop https://sites.google.com/view/wecth/home for some years. The current COVID-19 pandemic has implications for seminar organizers and speakers. Some thoughts. 1/13 Webinars are popping up everywhere,

UpSkillYourLife

UpSkillYourLife

9 Tips To Cultivate The Reading Habit. - Thread - 1. Start with your Favorite genre.- Choosing a book you can relate to also helps. - You can just breeze

Eva Murray for Anniesland 🌹

EvaCMurray

(A very long) THREAD because things are just getting to me. I got involved in politics to empower the communities I’ve lived in my whole life, to make things better

Robert McNees

mcnees

The mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. The fools at the academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in

Rebecca

riggaroo

A note about #JetpackCompose: Although more of the widgets are created & bundled with the library, Compose doesn't package its own version of SKIA. This means that you will still

VideoLAN

videolan

About the "security issue" on #VLC : VLC is not vulnerable.tl;dr: the issue is in a 3rd party library, called libebml, which was fixed more than 16 months ago.VLC since

Umanga Ruhunage🇱🇰

RuhunageUmanga

Sri Lanka and white supremacist rule : a thread The reason i thought of doing this because there are so many people, so many kids who value white man’s culture

annie

bog_watch

ray cat song been looping in my head all day... aka the “10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78hZIEqONM essentially, back in the 70s some people started to

Santiago

svpino

This is a thread about good software design.— Because we need more of it, not less — A fundamental characteristic of good software is its ability to change.You can also